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Top scientists win national award

By Liu Weifeng and Guan Xiaofeng (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-01-10 06:07
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His excellent doctoral dissertation won him a well-paid job in the United States with a yearly salary of US$4,300, which was almost equal to that of a professor's income level at that time.

However, Ye gave up his job and returned to China in October 1950.

"I had a strong feeling that New China was hopeful and needed me," Ye said.

He said he was "moved to tears" when he saw a welcome crowd singing and dancing in Luohu Port in South China's Guangdong Province.

After returning to China, Ye and some other scientists became pioneers of China's meteorological research.

In 1958, Ye and his assistant, Dr Tao Shiyan, wrote the book "Some Fundamental Problems of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere," which was one of the earliest publications on the dynamics of general circulation.

In 1978, Ye became director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

At the age of 90, Ye Duzheng is still busy with many research-related activities. "I am working eight hours a day but still find time is running short," Ye said.

Ye has been focusing on the effects of global warming since the 1980s and raised a concept of "orderly human activities" in 2003.

"A scientist's life is like a stage play, the success of which depends on two things: a good stage and a harmonious and unified group of performers," Ye said in an interview with Xinhua after winning the IMO Prize in 2004.

"I contributed all my success to the group of Chinese scientists who dedicated their lives to atmospheric studies."

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